Capias
4/14/1800 - 4/29/1800
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Two separate charges are brought against William Duane. He is charged with "Libel" and "Printing and Publishing Letters of a Foreign Minister."
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United States __ Sch.?
Pennsylvania District
The President of the United States To The Marshal
of the Pennsylvania District __ Greeting __
We command you that you take William
Duane
late of your district Yeoman if they may be found therein and them safely
keep so that you may have their _ bodies before the Judges of the Circuit
Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District of the Middle
Circuit as the same court now sitting in the city of Philadelphia then and
there to answer to the United States of and concerning an indictment for
printing and publishing Letters of a foreign Minister
and have then there this Writ _
Esquire Chief Justice of the supreme Court of the United States at
Philadelphia this fourteenth day of April __ A.D. 1800 and in the twenty
fourth year of the independence of the said United States __
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[undecipherable abbreviation] Apl. 1800.
Witness the Honorable Oliver Ellsworth
DCaldwell_Clk. Circ. Ct.
Circ. Ct. April 1800.
The United States
v
William Duane
Capias sur Indictment
for printing and publishing Letters
of a foreign Minister
The within named William Duane
is not to be found in my District
so answers
Jn Hall
Marshal
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United States Sch
Pennsylvania District
The President of the United States To the Marshal of the
Pennsylvania District _ Greeting _
We command you that you take William Duane
Late of your district Yeoman _ if he may be found therein and him safely
keep so that you may have his _ Body before the Judges of the Circuit
Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District of the Middle
Circuit at the same court now sitting in the city of Philadelphia then and
there to answer to the United States of and concerning an indictment of a
Libel
and have then there with Writ
Esquire Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States at
Philadelphia this fourteenth day of April _ A.D. 1800 and in the twenty
fourth year of the independence of the said United States._
Witness the Honorable Oliver Ellsworth
D.Caldwell_Clk. Circ. Ct.
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[undecipherable abbreviation] 29. Apl.1800.
Circ. Ct. April 1800.
The United States
William Duane
vs
Capias sur Indictment for a Libel
The within named William Duane
Is not to be found in my District.
So answers
Jn. Hall MarshallThis primary source comes from the Records of District Courts of the United States.
National Archives Identifier:
278982Full Citation: Capias; 4/14/1800 - 4/29/1800; United States versus William Duane, #19 April Session 1800; Criminal Case Files, 1791 - 1883; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/capias, April 19, 2024]